_A SUMMER TRIP OF THE ZIGZAG CLUB THROUGH
HOLLAND, GERMANY, DENMARK, NORWAY,
AND SWEDEN._

BY

HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH,

AUTHOR OF "YOUNG FOLKS' HISTORY OF AMERICA,"
"YOUNG FOLKS' HISTORY OF BOSTON,"
"ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN EUROPE," ETC.

_FULLY ILLUSTRATED._

BOSTON:
ESTES AND LAURIAT,
301-305 WASHINGTON STREET.
1884.

_Copyright, 1883_,
BY ESTES AND LAURIAT.

THE ZIGZAG SERIES.

BY

HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH,

OF THE EDITORIAL STAFF OF THE "YOUTH'S COMPANION,"
AND CONTRIBUTOR TO "ST. NICHOLAS" MAGAZINE.

_Each volume complete in itself._

NOW PUBLISHED.

_ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN EUROPE._
_ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN CLASSIC LANDS._
_ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN THE ORIENT._
_ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN THE OCCIDENT._

New Volume for 1883.

_ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN NORTHERN LANDS._

--> _Over 100,000 volumes of the Zigzag books have
already been sold._

[Illustration: CARRYING SIEGFRIED'S BODY.]

PREFACE.

This fifth volume of the Zigzag books, in which history is taught by a
supposed tour of interesting places, might be called a German
story-book.

It was the aim of "ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN EUROPE" and "ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN
CLASSIC LANDS" to make history interesting by stories and pictures of
places. It was the purpose of "ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN THE ORIENT" to
explain the Eastern Question, and of "ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN THE OCCIDENT"
to explain Homesteading in the West.

The purpose of this volume is the same as in "EUROPE" and "CLASSIC
LANDS." A light narrative of travel takes the reader to the places
most conspicuously associated with German history, tradition,
literature, and art, and in a disconnected way gives a view of the
most interesting events of those Northern countries that once
constituted a great part of the empire of Charlemagne.

It is the aim of these books to stimulate a love of history, and to
_suggest_ the best historical reading. To this end popular stories and
pictures are freely used to adapt useful information to the tastes of
the young. But in every page, story, and picture, right education and
right influence are kept in view.

In this volume many German legends and fairy stories have been used,
but they are so introduced and guarded as not to leave a wrong
impression upon the minds of the young and immature.